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How women changed what you eat (and how you eat it)

Mar. 18, 2019 Food & Drink

Women developed the coffee filter, the donut, mass-produced champagne, and modern Mexican food. Photo credit: Pixabay/CC 2.0

Women developed the coffee filter, the donut, mass-produced champagne, and modern Mexican food. A new book looks at these historic accomplishments. It’s called “A Woman’s Place: The Inventors, Rumrunners, Lawbreakers, Scientists & Single Moms Who Changed the World with Food.”

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